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Hapax: Poems

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Description for Hapax: Poems Paperback. Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this book of poems. Employing sonnets, couplets, blank verse, haiku, Sapphics, even a sequence of limericks, the author displays a seemingly effortless mastery of form. She makes these diverse forms modes for expressing intelligent thought. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 174.
Hapax is ancient Greek for ""once, once only, once and for all,"" and ""onceness"" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of ""Aftershocks,"" this book explores what does and does not survive its ""gone moment"" - childhood (""The Dollhouse""), ancient artifacts (""Implements from the Grave of the Poet""), a marriage's...
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Hapax is ancient Greek for ""once, once only, once and for all,"" and ""onceness"" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of ""Aftershocks,"" this book explores what does and does not survive its ""gone moment"" - childhood (""The Dollhouse""), ancient artifacts (""Implements from the Grave of the Poet""), a marriage's lost moments of happiness (""Lovejoy Street""). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years. Her musical lyrics cover a range of subjects from love and family to characters and themes derived from classical Greek sources (""Actaeon"" and ""Sisyphus""). Employing sonnets, couplets, blank verse, haiku, Sapphics, even a sequence of limericks, Stallings displays a seemingly effortless mastery of form. She makes these diverse forms seem new and relevant as modes for expressing intelligent thought as well as charged emotions and a sense of humor. The unique sensibility and linguistic freshness of her work has already marked her as an important, young poet coming into her own.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810151710
SKU
V9780810151710
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About A.E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings was born in 1968 and grew up in Decatur, GA. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her first poetry collection, Archalc Smile (University of Evansville Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry series (1994 & 2000) and has received numerous awards,...
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A. E. Stallings was born in 1968 and grew up in Decatur, GA. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her first poetry collection, Archalc Smile (University of Evansville Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry series (1994 & 2000) and has received numerous awards, including the 2004 Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry and the 2004 Nemerov Sonnet Award from the Formalist. She has recently completed a verse translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura for Penguin Classics. Stallings lives in Athens, Greece with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their son, Jason.

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